MSBuild Extension Pack - Home. MSBuild Reserved Properties. David Aiken : Configuring a Visual Studio 2005 Environment for W. In an attempt to live inside the Windows Powershell shell as much as possible, i figured i would need a way to use powershell to do .NET Framework command line things such as "InstallUtil" and "MSBuild".
After very little digging, it was clear i needed to create a Windows PowerShell profile and update the environment variables used by visual studio from there. Finding out about environment variables in Windows PowerShell was simple: help about_environment_variable This will help you discover that to access an environment variable you can use $env:<varname>. So a quick search for those pesky .bat files that configure the VS environment.